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Alaska IñUpiaq Skin-Sewing Designs: A Portal Into Cultural Identity, Amelia Katherine Topkok
Alaska IñUpiaq Skin-Sewing Designs: A Portal Into Cultural Identity, Amelia Katherine Topkok
Indigenous Studies
What it means to be an Indigenous person in the 21st century is a powerful and moving experience, and how we explore our own identity is up to us. Access to differing worldviews through printed literature and academia give a largely non-Indigenous viewpoint and inaccurate impressions of what it means to be "Iñupiaq." Indigenous education programs throughout the world, however, are emerging and emphasize personal views of individuals, creating a window into their worldview. Recognizing these worldviews validate Indigenous knowledge and allows this knowledge to be brought into arenas previously thought to be only relevant through Western knowledge. We all …
Ketchikan Cup O' News 2018-05, Marianne Ledford
Ketchikan Cup O' News 2018-05, Marianne Ledford
Ketchikan Cup O' News
No abstract provided.
Ketchikan Cup O' News 2018-05, Marianne Ledford
Ketchikan Cup O' News 2018-05, Marianne Ledford
Ketchikan Cup O' News
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Using Local Knowledge To Inform Commercial Fisheries Science And Management In Poland And Alaska, Elizabeth Carroll Figus
Using Local Knowledge To Inform Commercial Fisheries Science And Management In Poland And Alaska, Elizabeth Carroll Figus
Fisheries
Science and decision making in commercial fisheries management take place in the context of uncertainty. This research demonstrates ways that local knowledge held by fishermen can be used to mitigate that uncertainty. This dissertation documents local knowledge of fishermen in Poland and Alaska, and contributes to the development of methods for utilizing that local knowledge in commercial fisheries management. Specific case study examples were developed through exploratory interviews with fishermen in the two study regions. Interviews were conducted with Baltic cod (Gadus morhua) fishermen in Poland and Pacific halibut (Hippoglossus stenolepis) fishermen in Alaska. Qualitative and quantitative methods were used …
Alaska Native Scholars: A Mixed Methods Investigation Of Factors Influencing Phd Attainment, Alberta J. Jones
Alaska Native Scholars: A Mixed Methods Investigation Of Factors Influencing Phd Attainment, Alberta J. Jones
Faculty and Staff
This study entitled, "Alaska Native Scholars: A Mixed Methods Investigation of Factors Influencing PhD Attainment," investigates the contributing factors influencing the attainment of PhD degrees by Alaska Natives. Originating from a cross-section of rural and urban Alaska communities and tribal ethnicities, this group of scholars attended graduate schools throughout the country. Today many of these PhDs work in universities, conduct research, and advocate for Indigenous people in various leadership roles, both in and outside of Alaska. This study's assumption is these PhD graduates have gained valuable lessons along their path to success and an examination of these factors is relevant …
Adapting To Environmental And Social Change: Subsistence In Three Aleutian Communities, Jennifer Schmidt, Matthew Berman
Adapting To Environmental And Social Change: Subsistence In Three Aleutian Communities, Jennifer Schmidt, Matthew Berman
ISER Reports
Our surroundings and society are both constantly evolving. Some changes are due to natural processes. People are responsible for other changes, because of what we do—for example, increasing the size of the population, expanding technology, and increasing mobility and connectivity. And some changes—like climate change—are due to a combination of natural processes and actions of people. In the Arctic, including the Aleutian Islands, marine and coastal ecosystems have seen the largest number of regime shifts with direct and indirect consequences for subsistence activities, commercial fisheries, and coastal communities (Council 2016). This paper describes current subsistence activities and changes local residents …
Adapting To Environmental And Social Change: Subsistence In Three Aleutian Communities, Jennifer Schmidt, Matt Berman
Adapting To Environmental And Social Change: Subsistence In Three Aleutian Communities, Jennifer Schmidt, Matt Berman
ISER Reports
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Uas Academic Catalog 2018/2019, N/A N/A
Uas Academic Catalog 2018/2019, N/A N/A
UAS Academic Catalogs (2011-present)
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Protecting The Right To Exist As A People: Intellectual Property As A Means To Protect Traditional Knowledge And Indigenous Culture, Sean Collin, Yvette Collin, Michael Koskey
Protecting The Right To Exist As A People: Intellectual Property As A Means To Protect Traditional Knowledge And Indigenous Culture, Sean Collin, Yvette Collin, Michael Koskey
Wellness & Healing: Indigenous Innovations & Alaska Native Research
The dominant Western culture has created a legal system premised upon an individualistic and commercial foundation for intellectual property rights (IPR). This system necessarily excludes the protection of traditional knowledge and other components of Indigenous cultures, as well as concepts of communal responsibility for the keeping and transfer of such ideas and knowledge. These concepts are foundational to Indigenous knowledge systems in Alaska, as well as throughout the world. Today, a focus on this issue is critical to the preservation of indigenous cultures and their ways of knowing. We examine where national and international intellectual property rights systems are in …
Haa Dachx̱ÁnxʼI Sáani Kagéiyi Yís: Haa Yoo X̱ʼAtángi Kei Naltseen, X̲ʼUnei Lance Twitchell
Haa Dachx̱ÁnxʼI Sáani Kagéiyi Yís: Haa Yoo X̱ʼAtángi Kei Naltseen, X̲ʼUnei Lance Twitchell
Faculty, Staff, and Students
The Tlingit language has experienced drastic losses over the past two decades in terms of total number of speakers and places where the language is used. This steady decline in speakers was drastically accelerated as the last generation who grew up in a time when Tlingit was the primary language of homes and communities reach their sixties, seventies, eighties, and nineties. The youngest first language speakers are in their 60s, although most of them are in their eighties because intergenerational transmission severely declined in the second half of the 1900s, and has only recently returned with a few families who …
The Archaeology Of Human- Dog Relations In Northwest Alaska, Erica Hill
The Archaeology Of Human- Dog Relations In Northwest Alaska, Erica Hill
Faculty, Staff, and Students
Some 1500 years ago, on a gravel spit extending into the Chukchi Sea, people living at the site of Ipiutak buried several members of their community.
Bibliography Of Sources On Dena’Ina And Cook Inlet Anthropology Through 2016, James Kari, Alan Boraas, Aaron Leggett, R. Greg Dixon
Bibliography Of Sources On Dena’Ina And Cook Inlet Anthropology Through 2016, James Kari, Alan Boraas, Aaron Leggett, R. Greg Dixon
Alaska Native Language Center Faculty
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Natural Histories Of Yup'ik Memoirs, Caroline R. Crecelius
Natural Histories Of Yup'ik Memoirs, Caroline R. Crecelius
Anthropology
This thesis explores how cultural knowledge is committed to textual form and circulated within and outside of linguistically marginalized communities. Working within a Central Yup'ik context, I have focused my research on collections of Yup'ik elders' memoirs housed within the Alaska Native Language Archive. Published Yup'ik elders' memoirs offer rich descriptions of Yup'ik cultural histories, epistemologies and statements about language, the expression and inclusion of which varies based on the interactional contexts, participant frameworks and funding institutions through which they were produced. This study incorporates both Indigenous and non-Indigenous theoretical frameworks related to the process of entextualization, or text creation, …
Bringing Twygs To Life: Pace Based Lessons In An Adult Esl Classroom, Erica Harris
Bringing Twygs To Life: Pace Based Lessons In An Adult Esl Classroom, Erica Harris
Linguistics
English grammar is a daunting subject for language learners and teachers alike. Traditionally, grammar is taught in an explicit manner in a teacher-fronted classroom. Rules are given and explained to students, who then practice with drills and example problems. As an alternative approach to teaching grammar, this project incorporates the PACE model (Presentation, Attention, Co-Construction, Extension) and task-based language teaching (TBLT). This method of teaching is a departure from traditional explicit-style teaching, and focuses more on the learner's role in the classroom than on the teacher's role. The PACE model uses stories to teach grammar, in this case English prepositions. …
Social-Ecological Soundscapes: Examining Aircraft-Harvester-Caribou Conflict In Arctic Alaska, Taylor R. Stinchcomb
Social-Ecological Soundscapes: Examining Aircraft-Harvester-Caribou Conflict In Arctic Alaska, Taylor R. Stinchcomb
Biological Sciences
As human development expands across the Arctic, it is crucial to carefully assess the impacts to remote natural ecosystems and to indigenous communities that rely on wild resources for nutritional and cultural wellbeing. Because indigenous communities and wildlife populations are interdependent, assessing how human activities impact traditional harvest practices can advance our understanding of the human dimensions of wildlife management. Indigenous communities across Arctic Alaska have expressed concern over the last four decades that low-flying aircraft interfere with their traditional harvest practices. For example, communities often have testified that aircraft disturb caribou (Rangifer tarandus) and thereby reduce harvest opportunities. Despite …
Whalesong 2017-11-08, N/A N/A
Whalesong 2017-09-13, N/A N/A
Blackfish Lessons On Environmental Sustainability, Food, And Indigenous Culture, Thomas Swensen
Blackfish Lessons On Environmental Sustainability, Food, And Indigenous Culture, Thomas Swensen
Wellness & Healing: Indigenous Innovations & Alaska Native Research
This essay, “Blackfish Lessons on Environmental Sustainability, Food, and Indigenous Culture,” examines Yup’ik interventions into understanding the place of human-nonhuman animal relations in regard to ecological sustainability. In lending consideration to Indigenous culture, the first part of the essay explicates the Yup’ik way of living, the Yuuyaraq, and its relationship to the environment. Then the essay turns toward two Yup’ik stories about blackfish, John Active’s “Why Subsistence is a Matter of Cultural Survival: A Yup’ik Point of View” (2001) and Emily Johnson’s “Blackfish,” taken from The Thank-You Bar recorded performance (Johnson, 2009), that speak to the imbrications of Indigenous culture …
Science For Alaska: Place For Curious Learners, Diana L. Campbell
Science For Alaska: Place For Curious Learners, Diana L. Campbell
Communication
For over 25 years, Alaskans have been attending Science for Alaska Lecture Series, held during the coldest part of an Alaskan winter. The hour-long evening lectures would see from around 100 to almost 300 people attend each event. The scientific literature is quiet in regard to audience preferences in regard to the recieving end of science communication. This qualitative study looked at the audience of a science lecture series: who are they, why do they come and what do they do with the information. In nine taped audio interviews, the research participants described themselves as smart, curious lifelong learners who …
Changing Police Culture: Raising Awareness Of The Importance Of Mental Health, Mary Dombroski
Changing Police Culture: Raising Awareness Of The Importance Of Mental Health, Mary Dombroski
Justice
The suicide rate involving police officers has produced alarming statistics for decades. Until recently, however, little has been done to prevent suicide in law enforcement and even fewer efforts have been made to change the root of the problem. This paper reviews why a law enforcement officer may choose to take their life, looks at preexisting programs and resources that departments can choose to embrace, and supplies departments with a new approach to destigmatizing suicide within the police culture starting at the academy level.
Toward Arctic Transitions And Sustainability: Modeling Risks And Resilience Across Scales Of Governance, Berill Blair
Toward Arctic Transitions And Sustainability: Modeling Risks And Resilience Across Scales Of Governance, Berill Blair
Natural Resources
The Arctic region has been the subject of international attention in recent years. The magnitude of impacts from global climate change, land-use change, and speculations about economic development and accessible polar shipping lanes have intensified this focus. As a result, the potential to manage complex ecological, social and political relationships in the context of changes, risks and opportunities is the focus of a large and growing body of research. This dissertation contributes to the expanding scholarship on managing Arctic social-ecological systems for resilience by answering the question: What conditions improve cross-scale learning and resilience in nested social-ecological systems experiencing rapid …
The Effects Of Freezing And Storage Time On The Quality Of Reindeer Meat, George A. Aguiar
The Effects Of Freezing And Storage Time On The Quality Of Reindeer Meat, George A. Aguiar
Natural Resources
Restaurants, wholesalers and retailers of fresh meat require a year round consistent supply of uniform quality product to sustain demand and justify niche market costs such as advertisement and stocking product. Frozen reindeer meat could be stored, short or long term to increase availability provided there are no adverse effects of freezing. No studies to date have evaluated the effects of freezing and storage time on reindeer meat quality. Nine reindeer steers (castrated bulls; age 2.5 years) were fed a balanced milled ration at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) Reindeer Research Program (RRP) facility at the Agricultural Forestry Experiment …
Sand Dune Field Paleoenvironment, Paleoecology, And Human Environmental Interaction In The Middle Tanana River Valley Near The Gerstle River, Subarctic Alaska: The Late Glacial To The Middle Holocene, Robert C. Bowman
Anthropology
This study was conducted to explore paleoenvironmental change within the Gerstle-Sawmill Dune Field (GSDF), located just west of the Gerstle River in the middle Tanana River valley, Interior Alaska from the late Glacial to the middle Holocene. Specifically, this study was undertaken to document human-environment interaction on the landscape. Geoarchaeological methods were used in order to determine the history of sand dune development across the area, how the local ecological systems changed through time, and determine prehistoric human use of environment and response to environmental and ecological change. The data collected from these locations was used to create a model …
Xunaa Shuká HíT, The Tribal House, In Glacier Bay National Park And Preserve, Alaska, Emiko Furuya
Xunaa Shuká HíT, The Tribal House, In Glacier Bay National Park And Preserve, Alaska, Emiko Furuya
Arctic and Northern Studies
This research analyzes the Tribal House project in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve in Southeast Alaska, which the Hoonah Indian Association (the tribal government at Hoonah) and Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve have promoted collaboratively. The Tribal House project is the construction of an indigenous structure in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, primarily for the use of Hoonah, the local Tlingit community. This research investigates the motivations of the partners in supporting the project. It concludes that the two partners' motivations, which derive from distinct missions, reconcile with one another in a complex way. The Hoonah Indian …
Inclusive Education In Japan: A Meta-Synthesis, Brooke Munro
Inclusive Education In Japan: A Meta-Synthesis, Brooke Munro
Special Education Masters Program Theses
The Japanese education system is held in high regards for the quality of public education and the types of careers Japanese students secure once graduating. Unfortunately, students with disabilities in Japan are not able to access the same high-quality education as their peers without disabilities due to a lack of inclusive education practices. Many surveys were gathered from Japanese parents with children with disabilities, mainstream Japanese teachers, Japanese principals, and Japanese students with disabilities regarding the perception of people with disabilities. This meta-synthesis of literature on inclusive education in Japan investigates public education for students with disabilities in Japan and …
Ketchikan Cup O' News 2017-07, Marianne Ledford
Ketchikan Cup O' News 2017-07, Marianne Ledford
Ketchikan Cup O' News
No abstract provided.
Ketchikan Cup O' News 2017-07, Marianne Ledford
Ketchikan Cup O' News 2017-07, Marianne Ledford
Ketchikan Cup O' News
No abstract provided.
Environmental Forensics: An Innovative Technique Using Bone To Identify Mercury And Stable Isotope Levels In Internal Tissues Of Wildlife In A Changing Western Alaska Environment, Bonita Hope Dainowski
Environmental Forensics: An Innovative Technique Using Bone To Identify Mercury And Stable Isotope Levels In Internal Tissues Of Wildlife In A Changing Western Alaska Environment, Bonita Hope Dainowski
Chemistry and Biochemistry
We evaluated if total mercury (THg) concentrations of keratin-based and bone-based tissues can predict THg concentrations in skeletal muscle, renal medulla, renal cortex, and liver. The THg concentration in matched tissues of 65 red foxes, Vulpes vulpes, from western Alaska was determined. Hair THg concentration had a significant positive correlation with liver, renal medulla, renal cortex, and muscle. The THg concentration is moderately predictive of THg concentration in the renal cortex and liver for these foxes based on R² values (R² = 0.61 and 0.63, respectively), but was not moderately predictive of THg for renal medulla R² = 0.50 and …
Subsistence And Commercial Fisheries Through The Lenses Of Culture And Economy In Three Coastal Alaskan Communities, Davin L. Holen
Subsistence And Commercial Fisheries Through The Lenses Of Culture And Economy In Three Coastal Alaskan Communities, Davin L. Holen
Anthropology
Commercial and subsistence fisheries in Alaska are complex social-ecological systems constituting interdependent components which include economics and culture at the local and regional levels. Each fishery has unique challenges and benefits; however, a commonality that can be found in coastal communities in Alaska is that salmon fisheries are for many a way of life that serve to link commercial and subsistence practices to family and traditions. This research investigated whether and how culture is a key component of subsistence and commercial fisheries in three core study communities in different parts of coastal Alaska; Chenega Bay in Prince William Sound, Kokhanok …
A Metric Investigation Of The Cranial Base And Vertebrae Among Extant African Homininae: Discrimination Across Posturo-Locomotory Complexes, David Alexander Lukaszek
A Metric Investigation Of The Cranial Base And Vertebrae Among Extant African Homininae: Discrimination Across Posturo-Locomotory Complexes, David Alexander Lukaszek
Anthropology
Cranial base angle, vertebral dimensions, vertebral curvature, and locomotive behavior differ among Homo, Pan, and Gorilla; but many distinctions are obfuscated by dimensional and behavioral overlap among the genera and their fossil relatives. To address these issues, cranial and vertebral measurements (suites) were examined among Homo, Gorilla, and Pan as representative hominines for their posture and locomotion or positional-locomotory complexes. An additional analysis considered Australopithecus afarensis (A.L. 288-1 and A.L. 333) for comparative purposes. Using size-adjusted values with applied Bonferroni adjusted alpha levels, significant results for both the Kruskal-Wallis H-test and Mann-Whitney U-tests indicated statistically significant differences among species for …